You work at a smile and you go for a ride. You had a bad day.

[Bad Day-Daniel Powter]

so i was having a completely bad day today. i woke up at 8 am after a night of very little sleep. i went to calc recitation to take a quiz i felt mildly unsure about. then i went to physics where an angry little german man made me feel terribly stupid and hopeless. everything seemed pretty bad for some reason. i had chem lab and i dressed in work clothes. i looked like trash, and, as always happens, i saw someone i want to impress when i was looking like garbage. plus, i had cramps and was feeling rather emotional thanks to mother nature's fast approaching gift. and, i had a long night at work to look forward too. woo hoo. thursday night means 6-close. it means a whole mess of cleaning and dishes and scrubbing and chopping and weighing and other work-related things. ugh. and i knew that after i got done at work around 11 i had to come home, finish my hw, take a shower, eat, and get ready for the next day. it was just one of those days.

but actually, going to work made my day better. i actually got happier at work.

see i work wed morning and thurs night. i like my job better wed morning. i work pick and mix all morning. basically, i just make salads all day. pretty easy. thursday night i pack up pick and mix. then i weigh salads, chop all ingredients needed for the next day, and clean it up. when that is done, i have to go clean other stuff. its really not fun. but i like the people i work with thurs night better. the wed people are great dont get me wrong, but the thurs people are more fun. mostly cuz the managers usually go home so only us students are left to our own devices. which can be very entertaining.

thurs night i work with tabbitha, john, vish, angela, and josh. they are great. vish is very nice. tabbitha is nice too. she is easy to talk to. i dont really know john much, but he is ok. angela is so funny. she is great to be around. josh is nice, though im not quite sure about him. the thing is, he has never been anything but positively delightful to me. he always speaks to me and tries to talk to me and stuff. he is very nice to me. but for some reason he makes me a little.....maybe nervous....aware maybe. i have no idea what really. like i said, he had never been anything but absolutely fantastic. its probably just cuz i dont know him much yet.

so i went to work and got into a way better mood just cuz i like being around these people. one time, i was standing there weighing lettuce and out of the corner of my eye i see angela standing there staring at me. so keep on working but she is just staring at me. so after a while im like "...?" and she just laughs and was like "dang it took you forvever. i have been staring at you for a long time. i wondered if you were gonna say something" and she laughed and walked off. it was just funny. and i felt like i had...friends? well, acquaintences at least. its something.

a little while later, i was standing at the counter working. and i was standing there crying. and josh comes out and he is all like "omg are you ok? whats wrong?" and im like "nothing im fine" and he is like "your crying," ya know being very concerned and all. and im like laughing and crying now and im like "dude simmer down. im fine. im chopping the onions, thats all." (chopping onions is not fun btw)

so we are supposed to wait til ten to close. but angela was feeling rather impatient that night. so about 20 minutes til, she had everyone go claim whatever pizza they wanted to take home. but she was still not technically supposed to close. but then, she "accidentally" knocked over a tray of pizza lol. and darn it all, if she wasnt just so clumsy that she "accidentally" knocked all the pizza onto the ground twenty minutes before close. haha so we got to start cleaning up early.

i had to help josh with dishes. i hate doing dishes. ugh. but luckily he was washing them all and i only had to get them out of the sanitizer tub and lay them all out. so it wasnt so bad really. again, me and josh kinda chit chatted. he was trying to be very nice. and... i dunno. im sure it will get better. i think im just in that awkward "i dont really know you" stage, which is my problem not his lol.

so anyways, i think my job is gonna be ok actually. it kinda stresses me out in the sense that i have less time for my hw, but i really like the people i work with. especially on thurs night. so i think its gonna be fine.